WILLIAM TREVOR / ELIZABETH BOWEN
INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2013

 

First Prize €3,000.00
Second Prize €500.00

 

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Five runners up will receive cash prizes of €200.00 each.
There is an entry fee of €20.00 per entry and each entry must have an official entry form attached.

 

Mitchelstown Literary Society is pleased to announce the launch of the third William Trevor / Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition.

 

The Society was founded to celebrate the lives and works of two of Ireland’s literary greats with Mitchelstown connections. The short story competition evolved as a natural adjunct to our annual literary festival and aims to provide a competitive outlet for new and emerging writers in the short story genre. The continued support of William Trevor includes sponsoring the very generous First Prize.

 

Our adjudicators are both well-known short story writers and book reviewers. They will select a short list of approximately 25 stories to be passed on for final adjudication.

 

Drumshanbo born, Dublin resident, Ita Daly, who will again be our main adjudicator, was married to writer and editor, the late David Marcus. Educated at U.C.D., Ita holds a Masters Degree in English. She has published five novels, a collection of short stories and two children’s books. Two times winner of the Hennessy Literary Awards and an Irish Times Short Story Award winner, Ita’s last novel ‘Unholy Ghosts’ was long listed for the Impact Award.

 

 

 

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Details of rules, official entry form(s), payment methods etc. can be had from our official contact points indicated below.

There is entry fee of 20.00 Euro per entry and the Closing Date for receipt of entries is last post on Friday, 5th April 2013.

 

The winner and runners up will be notified personally as well as results being posted to the competition website as they become available.

 

Entries, by post only, to:

Trevor/Bowen International Short Story Competition,
37 Upper Cork Street,
Mitchelstown,
Co. Cork,
Ireland.

 

Contact Points:

Tel: 025/84969
Email: cusackliam@eircom.net
www.mitchelstownlit.com